Former Amazon and Time executive Ashish Laghate joins Housing.com product team

Housing.com has hired former Amazon and Time Magazine executive Ashish Laghate to work on its product team as part of the company’s strategy to strengthen its top management.Aditi Shrivastava | ET Bureau | May 12, 2016, 08:39 IST

Under the new chief executive Jason Kothari, Housing.com has revamped its top management and appointed more experienced talent on its board.BENGALURU: Real estate portal Housing.com has hired former Amazon and Time Magazine executive Ashish Laghate to work on its product team as part of the company’s strategy to strengthen its top management.

The announcement, on Wednesday, comes a week after the company named Dilip Tuli, a director at the audit and consultancy firm KPMG, as the head of its strategy and new business initiatives. “This entire year our focus is to grow steady and strong by solving pain points in the buy and sell real estate segment,” said Snehil Buxy, chief product officer at Housing.com. “In terms of product innovation, our team will be working to improve existing features and make new additions to add value for buyers at every step of their home-buying journey.”

Under the new chief executive Jason Kothari, Housing.com has revamped its top management and appointed more experienced talent on its board. The company has made several additions to its leadership team naming Mani Rangarajan as the chief financial officer; Nikhil Rungta as the chief marketing officer; Nandini Mehta as the general counsel, Abhishek Hota as the chief of staff and Keerthi Kiran as the head of new real estate projects.

“One of the key steps to Housing’s transformation has been to build a strong foundation for the company and professionalise the company, while keeping it entrepreneurial and innovative,” said CEO Jason Kothari. “This has involved attracting and motivating worldclass talent from both India and outside of India to ensure we have one of the most-experienced and driven teams in the broader technology space, not just the online real estate space.”